She Was Never Me
Reporters swarmed outside, cameras flashing like strobe lights on a battlefield.
"That's her! She poisoned Hannah's baby!"
"Oh my God, that's cruel… How can adult grudges fall on a child?"
"Bitch, go die already!"
Shouts and curses swallowed me whole.
Then Theo looked at the angry crowd and something twisted in his mind.
He didn't take me inside. Instead, he turned sharply and dragged me to the gallery where I'd been preparing my sculpture exhibition for months.
The hall was nearly ready. At the center, on the most prominent pedestal, stood the piece I had poured my soul into: a hollow human figure.